[LucyJo]

"If you can induce a community to doubt the genuineness and authenticity of the Scriptures,
to question the reality and obligations of religion;
to hesitate, undeciding, whether there be any such thing as virtue or vice;
whether there be an eternal state of retribution beyond the grave; or whether there be any such being as God;
you have broken down the barriers of moral virtue, and hoisted the flood gates of immorality and crime.

I need not say that when a people have once done this, they can no longer exist as a tranquil and happy people…
Avarice, perjury, ambition, and revenge would walk through the land, and render it more like the dwelling of savage beasts than the tranquil abode of civilized and Christianized men."

(William McGuffey, quoted in Power Lectures, The Parables of Jesus, page 320).

[Freedom'sWorthIt]

Thanks for that quotation - it’s a keeper!